A VISITING football fan enjoyed his away day at Brighton and Hove Albion so much he decided to create the club’s £100 million home in Lego.

Jules Richards was among the contingent of Cardiff fans visiting the American Express Community Stadium for the league fixture with the Seagulls earlier this month.

Having enjoyed his team enjoy a share of the spoils in a 1-1 draw, the 42-year-old went home and worked his magic with Lego bricks to create the Seagulls home in miniature.

Mr Richards said it took 780 bricks to recreate the Falmer Stadium and about four hours.

The Bluebirds fan made his first Lego stadium in February when he made a replica of the Cardiff City Stadium on a wet and windy day off work.

So impressed were his work colleagues with his construction he was asked to create the home grounds of their favourite teams; Luton Town’s Kenilworth Road and Watford’s Vicarage Road before Swindon’s County Ground and the Millennium Stadium took his fancy.

He said: “It’s sort of becoming a hobby.

“It takes me about three to four hours to make one, they don’t seem to take too long and people seem to like them.

“I’ve been to Brighton three or four times so I know what the stadium looks like.

“The thing is with the Amex you have got that curved roof and curved sides which is hard to do with square bricks.”

After completing the stadiums, Mr Richards shows no sentiment to his creations, posting photographs of them before dismantling them.

He said: “I kept the Cardiff one but generally I tend to demolish them, I haven’t got the room at home to keep them but I wish I could.

“The bricks are pretty much mine, my boys are all grown up and haven’t played with them for years.

“I’m 42-year-old so I’m probably too old to be playing with Lego but there’s lots of us who I think liked playing with them when we were younger and I will always be interested.”